VMWare Products Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA26890
Release Date: 2007-09-20
Last Update: 2007-10-23
Popularity: 15,765 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:VMware ESX Server 2.x
VMware ESX Server 3.x

Software:VMware ACE 1.x
VMWare ACE 2.x
VMware Player 1.x
VMWare Player 2.x
VMware Server 1.x
VMware Workstation 5.x
VMware Workstation 6.x

Binary Analysis: BA233 :: Available for Credits
BA236 :: Available for Credits

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0061
CVE-2007-0062
CVE-2007-0063
CVE-2007-4496
CVE-2007-4497
CVE-2007-5023
CVE-2007-5024
CVE-2007-5025
CVE-2007-5617
CVE-2007-5618
CVE-2007-5619


Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in various VMware products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An unspecified error can be exploited by a user with administrative privileges in the guest system to cause a memory corruption on a certain host process.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code on the host system.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited within the guest system to cause a host process to crash.

The vulnerabilities affect VMWare ESX 3.0.1, 3.0.0, 2.5.4, 2.5.3, 2.1.3, and 2.0.2, VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 and 5.5.4, VMWare Player 2.0.0 and 1.0.4, VMWare Server 1.0.3, and VMWare ACE 2.0.0 and 1.0.3.

3) An integer underflow error in the DHCP server can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted DHCP packet.

4) An integer overflow error in the DHCP server can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted DHCP packet.

5) Improper handling of malformed DHCP packets can be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted DHCP packet.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allow execution of arbitrary code.

6) Improper starting of registered services can be exploited to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities affect VMWare Workstation 6.0.0 and 5.5.4, VMWare Player 2.0.0 and 1.0.4, VMWare Server 1.0.3, and VMWare ACE 2.0.0 and 1.0.3.

Solution:
Update to the latest version or apply patches.

-- VMware ESX 3.0.1 --

Patch Bundle ESX-8258730:
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-8258730-patch.html
md5sum a06d0e36e403b0fe6bc6fbc76220a86d


-- VMware ESX 3.0.0 --

Patch Bundle ESX-4809553:
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-4809553-patch.html
md5sum cd363526aab5fa6c45bf2509cb5ae500

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 3.0.1 as 3.0.0 is nearing its End-of-life.


-- VMware ESX 2.5.4 --
Apply patch 10 (Build# 53326)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-254-200708-patch.html
md5sum 8f29f906e0f3c8605a203f914f36b3d1


-- VMWare ESX 2.5.3 --
Apply patch 13 (Build# 52488)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx25/doc/esx-253-200708-patch.html
md5sum 32ba19deb7af268ab357710145f8659b

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 2.5.4 or later as 2.5.3 is nearing its End-of-life.


-- VMware ESX 2.1.3 --
Apply patch 8 (Build# 53228)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx-213-200708-patch.html
md5sum 32f9f87a99c5c801dd61492a9d91dfe2

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 2.5.4 or later as 2.1.3 is nearing its End-of-life.


-- VMware ESX 2.0.2 --
Apply patch 8 (Build# 52650)
http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx-202-200708-patch.html
md5sum f36bb75b51f79e4ba2a2f01a71c3bb08

NOTE: The vendor recommends users to update to version 2.5.4 or later as 2.0.2 is nearing its End-of-life.


-- VMware Workstation 6.0.0 --
Update to version 6.0.1 (Build# 55017)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/


-- VMware Workstation 5.5.4 --
Update to version 5.5.5 (Build# 56455)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/ws5.html


-- VMware Player 2.0.0 --
Update to version 2.0.1 (Build# 55017)
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/


-- VMware Player 1.0.4 --
Update to version 1.0.5 (Build# 56455)
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/


-- VMware Server 1.0.3 --
Update to version 1.0.4 (Build# 56528)
http://www.vmware.com/download/server/


-- VMware ACE 2.0.0 --
Update to version 2.0.1 (Build# 55017)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/


-- VMware ACE 1.0.3 --
Update to version 1.0.4 (Build# 54075)
http://www.vmware.com/download/ace/

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
1-2) Rafal Wojtczvk, McAfee
3-5) Neel Mehta and Ryan Smith, IBM ISS X-Force
6) Foundstone

Changelog:
2007-09-20: Updated advisory and added additional links.
2007-09-25: Added CVE reference.
2007-10-23: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
VMWare:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html#601
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#555
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html#resolved
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html#new_201
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html#105
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html#201
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html

IBM ISS X-Force:
http://www.iss.net/threats/275.html
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33103
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33102
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33101


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